LAWFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lawfulness mean? 

• LAWFULNESS (noun)
  The noun LAWFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of conforming to law

  Familiarity information: LAWFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAWFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of conforming to law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("lawfulness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

lawful (conformable to or allowed by law)

unlawful (contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lawfulness"):

legality (lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute)

legitimacy (lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law)

licitness (the quality of strictly conforming to law)

Antonym:

unlawfulness (the quality of failing to conform to law)

Derivation:

lawful (conformable to or allowed by law)

lawful (authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law)

lawful (having a legally established claim)